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Gradual Learning
Stephen Sullivan has almost spent as much time learning at Columbia as he has teaching high school students. With multiple awards and...

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Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
Getting elected is tough; getting re-elected is not Each September brings a sea of new (shining, hopeful, motivated, etc.) faces to...

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First Name, Last Name, School, Class Year, Uni, Email
With endless possibilities, all these clubs need is your contact info Illustration by Sahra Denner Illustrations by Sahra Denner

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The House on the Hill
The case of the mysterious Riverside house, and why someone built it People go to Riverside Park for three reasons: to feel like they’re...

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Is this Friendship?
Affirmative By Frank Baring “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”...

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A Million Dollars of Red Tape
BUT HIS EMAILS Columbia’s legal troubles keep piling up In the February 2014 issue of this magazine, Anna Bahr, BC ‘14, unveiled the...

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Iqraz Nanji
By Miya Lee “I was trying to think of some talking points for this, but usually the things I say are so vulgar I would never want them in...

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Campus Gossip, May 2018
Think Columbia elections are boring? Varun Devatha, Cornell ’19, recently survived being disqualified over a supporter’s meme containing...

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Expressing the Unexplained
A conversation with Erik Gray By Caroline Hurley Editor-in-Chief Caroline Hurley sat down with Professor of English Erik Gray for this...

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Graduating Without Taking the Core Curriculum
Columbia continues age-old tradition of awarding fake degrees By Zoe Dansdill 1. Alexander Hamilton The first U.S. Secretary of the...

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The State of the Union
Graduate students hit the picket line, demand that Prezbo bargain By Mary Dawson When the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) gave a...

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Poker Face or Baby Face
From the Travel Desk: A freshman experiences New York’s underground poker scene On a particularly boring Wednesday afternoon I received a...

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Measure for Measure, May 2018
Through the scratched glass of the sky painted window, In the center of the kitchen that we all wished was a couple feet wider, There is...

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Told Between Puffs, May 2018
In which our hero solidifies summer plans ‘There is something distasteful in the informality of email,’ thought Verily as he opened up...

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Was it Worth It?
Affirmative Stumbling bleary-eyed out of Butler as the sun begins to peer bashfully over the horizon, one often struggles to free oneself...

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Toni Airaksinen
By Ryan Mohen The first thing you find when you search Google for Toni Airaksinen’s name is an extremely active Twitter account with...

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Blue Notes, May 2018
During her inauguration this February, President Sian Beilock of Barnard noted, “In computer science, … there are important areas like...

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Letter From the Editor, May 2018
I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...

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Minding Progress
A conversation with Michele Moody-Adams By Isaiah Bennett A widely-renowned moral and political philosopher, and both the first woman and...

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Measure for Measure, April 2018
Now Open at 6 a.m. on Sundays Now look here fella, The Lord’s Day never gave me any trouble. None at all. I’d be up the there, right...

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